Warden David Stansfeld spotted this lovely common toad while undertaking tree safety surveys at Knettishall Heath. 

Yellow horned poppies are still flowering at Dingle Marshes. The yellow horned poppy is a coastal plant that grows on shingle beaches, cliffs and sand dunes.

The golden-yellow flowers appear in June and are followed by the 'horns' - curling seedpods that can be up to 30cm long. When it is broken, the plant exudes a yellow sap which is poisonous. 

Devil's coach horses are voracious predators, usually emerging after dark to prey on other invertebrates, and using their pincer-like jaws to crush them. They are fast-moving, preferring to run along the ground rather than fly. They are well-known for curling up their abdomens like the tail of a scorpion when threatened and emitting a foul-smelling substance from their abdomens.

This one was spotted in the car park at Carlton Marshes. 

Lound Lakes Warden Andy Hickinbotham was thrilled to see an abundance of thumbnail-sized toadlets in the reserve's wildlife garden recently.  

The chicken of the woods is an easy-to-spot bracket fungus due to its distinctive sulphur-yellow colour; in fact, it is also called the 'sulphur polypore'. It grows high up on the trunks of deciduous trees, like this one on an oak at Lound Lakes. 

This third-generation wall brown butterfly was seen soaking up the warmth of the office wall at Lound Lakes this week. The wall brown is a widespread, but declining, butterfly of sunny places, which is on the wing in two or three broods, between the middle of April and the end of October. 

Blaxhall Common has plenty of these gorgeous earthball fungi in fruit this week. Earthballs look similar to puffballs but are yellower with thicker, scaly skin. 

Warden Debs Crawford and her wonderful team of volunteers have been hard at work at Redgrave and Lopham Fen, clearing sedge and restoring fen habitat. 

Lound Lakes Warden Andy Hickinbotham paid an evening visit to our conservation grazers on the reserve to ensure their water tank was topped up. 

Warden Joe Underwood and his team had a successful ‘Great British Beach Clean’ at Trimley Marshes on Sunday.

Over 3,400 items of litter were cleared from a 100 metre survey area, and a total of 99.1kg of litter was removed from the rest of the beach.  A big thank you to all the enthusiastic volunteers who came along!